Australopithecus: The Australopithecus can walk on there legs. There brain is one third then our brain.
Homo Habilis: The Homo Habilis learned how to make early stone tools. There brain is half of our brain.
Homo Erectus: The Homo Erectus made the hand ax. Also they learned how to make fire and use it.
Homo Sapiens: The Homo Sapiens developed language and they were able to control fire.
Aspects of Daily life effects notes
The aspects of daily life: Walking on two legs.
Learning how to farm
stone tools
food source...?
Vocabulary:
prehistory: Period of time hominid: A family ancestor: Relatives tool: Items to help us in the world. Paleolithic Era:society:hunter-gatherers: They hunt and gather
Time lines
The first: Australopithecus
2nd:Homo Habilis
3rd:Homo Erectus
4th:Homo Sapiens
Other notes:
Assignment
David Kwak 8/21/09
1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year?
2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215
3. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? Type in the content of your page here
1. Born in CE year
2.BC 3100, 15 BCE, AD 3, AD 476, CE1215, AD 2000
3. AD 1000 means After Christ and it's the year 1000 Assignment 2
Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class.
Question 1: When was the Emergence of modern humans?
Answer 1: It was in the 100,000 B.C.E
Question 2: Did making Pyramids come first or did alphabets come first?
Answer 2: The Pyramids came first.
Question 3: How many events were there before the Pyramids and after it?
Answer 3: There was ten after and seven event before the pyramid.
Question 4: When were the Burins invented?
Answer 4: The Burin was invented in 45,000 B.C.E
Question 5: Did the invention of paper come first or did the invention of money?
Answer 5: The invention of money came first. Assignment 3
Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project Response Note you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See Resources-1
Answer the following questions on your wiki page.
1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project?
2. What Problems did your group run into?
3. How did your group deal with these problems?
4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories.
5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
1.My roles in the puppet show is Marduk and the Narrator.Also I was props manager.
2. Our group had two problems. The first problem was that our puppets size was to small. Our other problem was that we missed some puppets like the monsters.
3. For the first problem we fixed it by just getting it closer and sometimes smaller which worked. The second problem we fixed by using our hands.
4. The two similarities is that the first one is that all of these story's included humans. The other similarities is that all of the gods were angry or sad at least once because for our story (the one with Marduk) other gods besides Marduk and his father were living a good life. When all the other gods are angry at Marduk. For the Egypt story the god Ra was sad that his creations were gone! For the Chinese one the girl goddess was sad because she had no friends. For the Greek story Zeus gets angry at other gods because he forbidden fire out of the heavens but Prometheus took the fire and gave it too the humans so Zeus was angry. This is interesting! Why do you think this is so?
5. Egypt Story and the Chinese Story
In the Egypt story there is a god there is also a god in the Chinese story. Both of the gods are lonely. However later on they make friends or family members. Both gods are like monsters. lonely in beginning happy in the end. For the Egypt story the god cry's to make people. However the Chinese story the god makes the humans. Thus these are my compare and contrast.
Assignment 4
Please read pages 29 & 30 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found?
2. What is the scientific name of Lucy?
3. How long ago did Lucy live?
4. What was an important step in human development?
5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.
Make sure your answer is clear and detailed.
Australopithecus
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
6. Which hominid are you?
1. Lucy and the other hominids were found at Africa.
2. The scientific name for Lucy is Australopithecus.
3. Lucy lived for more then 3 million years ago.
4. There are two important developments. The first one is our species walking on two feet. The other important development is making tools out of stones.
5. Australopithecus and homo habilis are different because they both came from a different time period. The Australopithecus was one third the size of our brain. The homo habilis are smarter then the Australopithecus because the homo habilis had half the size of our brains. The homo erectus learned to control fire, made stone tools, and they migrated. The Homo sapiens are wise mans because they developed language. Thus basically Homo sapiens are us the smartest ones yet.
6. We are homo sapiens.
Assignment 5
Read pages 32-34 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
Why do historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory?
What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright?
What kind of tools did people use during the Paleolithic Era?
Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language?
Define the boldfaced words above.
1. Because if they find a artifact then they'll study it.
2. One of the advantage is being able to use the hands.
3. In the Paleolithic Era time the tools they used was the flint knives, obsidian knives, spears, brushes, and baskets.
4. If I could make a tool i'll make a tool that can make pictures on the wall. Thus that people can know how we lived.
5. A hunter gatherer is a person who gathers food for living.
6. To me the most important change would be the language because without it we could be speaking random word like uga booga. Doesn't really answer the question
7. Prehistory: The period of time.
Paleolithic Era: Along time ago period.
Tools: Objects to make life easier.
Hunter Gatherer: A person who hunts and gather for a living.
Assignment 6
Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions clearly and completely. Please put your answers on your wiki page.
1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?).
Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:
2. What is another name for the New Stone Age?
3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for?
4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be?
5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution?
6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'?
7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia?
8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated?
9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different.
1. This discovery could have changed my life because then people would know how to farm instead of going everywhere searching for food. People can just relax in the a place and farm and ta-da they get a tree full of fruits.
2. Another name for the New Stone Age is the Neolithic Era.
3. The people at this time made fire, drills, and saws. They made these items so that they can have a easier life.
4. The new stone age people was able to make fire.
5. I think it's called a revolution because people throw away the old age and gets the new age.
6. Domesticated means keeping as a pet.
7. The place that was domesticated is Asia.
8. The first place Domesticated for corn is Maize.
9. Hunters go out to get meat. Farmers just get animals from a place where he stores the animals. Hunters need to move around and gather plants. Farmers just farm and harvests his crop. Hunters makes weapons. Farmers don't really need weapons.
Assignment 7
Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.
Answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period?
2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period?
3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture?
1. Which hominid is Lucy?
2. Why is the Neolithic Revolution important to us?
3. Why is Lucy so important.
1. In the Paleolithic period it was not advanced as the Neolithic because in Paleolithic they made the stone ax. On the Neolithic they made more stuff like drill, and etc.
2. They changed because they didn't need to hunt and they would just go to the plants or animals to get food.
3. The advantage is life becomes more easy. However the disadvantage is that there are valuable minerals disappearing from the earth.
Assignment 8
Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you?
2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class?
3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. (Note: Simply saying you have cell phones and she doesn't is an unacceptable answer.)
1. The surgery surprised me because people used stone to make a hole in the skull and they didn't use metal.
There knowledge surprised me how did they know they had to make a hole in the skull so that the blood can go out when they don't even know the inside.
The last thing that surprised me was that they traded animals I thought they traded with food.
2. I knew that the Catal Huyuk traded goods.
I did know that the Catal Huyuk planted plants and tamed animals.
The last thing is that I knew they could make fire.
3. Jookie life she has to trade in order to get goods. However we just get these metal coins or green paper in order to get goods.
In Jookie's time the surgery in their time makes people weird. However in my life surgery's are sort of safe depending where you get hurt.
The last thing that's different in my life and Jookie's life is that when there is poison in a person they have to do things in order to get that person safe but in my life right now we have kits to save our lives.
Assignment 9
Now that we are finished with the Early Humans unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about Early Humans. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page.
1. The single most important thing I learned was...
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...
3. What surprised me the most was...
4. I would like to know more about...
5. The part that I think I will always remember was...
1. The most important thing I learned was that they did surgery's even with stones.
2. The thing that confused me was Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, and Homo Sapiens. Also the timeline confused me.
3. The thing that surprised me the most is that even in the stone age they knew where to put a hole in or doing surgery's.
4. I would like to learn more about Lucy.
5.I will always remember the surgery with stone tools.
Assignment 2-1
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page.Use the links above from the Class Activityto help you answer the questions.
Event A: Food Shortage
1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia?
2. What does cultivate mean?
3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have?
4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why?
Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply
1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains?
2. How did they solve these problems?
3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from?
Event A. Food Shortage
1. Better technology, increased food supply, and stronger shelter made the population grow.
2. Cultivate means grow.
3. The problem at the Zagros hill was too much population meant food shortage.
4. C. because the more people there is the more meat you could get. When the food shortage problem is over they can go back to farming.
Event B. Uncontrolled Water supply
1. There were floods and the land was too dry.
2. They made a dam.
3. It came from the river.
Assignment 2-2
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the In Class Activity 2-1 called Event C:Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System & Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities to help you answer the questions.
Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System
1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
2. How did farmers prevent flooding?
3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please clearly explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers?
4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food?
5. What could happen if one canal was clogged?
6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system?
Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities
1. How did Mesopotamian villages help each other?
2. How were people, who lived very far apart, connected to each other?
3. What did many villages grow into?
4. What do we call the region in Mesopotamia that had many growing cities and towns? What are the people called that come from this region?
5. How could one city stop the water from reaching another city?
6. Why was it easy to attack other cities on the Mesopotamian plains?
7. What defense plan is best to protect a city?
Event C
1. The way to get water was by getting them in buckets.
2. They made a canal.
3. Levees were a dam preventing the water to the fields and also making the amount of water on it increase. Then they would poke a hole and make the water come out and water their fields.
4. The word is surplus.
5. Then all the other towns canal would stop working then.
6. They would cooperate with each other.
Event D
1. They basically cooperated.
2. They were connected by the canals.
3. Many villages grew into a city or town.
4. The place that's been growing is Sumer and the people are called sumerians.
5. They can block the canals.
6. It was easy because there was no big security and it was all flat open land.
7. Building walls around the city.
Assignment 2-3
Please read pages 56-59 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
1. How did the Fertile Crescent get its name?
2. What was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile?
3. In what ways did a Division of Labor contribute to the growth of Mesopotamiam civilization?
4. How might running large projects like the maintaining a large and complex irrigation system prepare people for running a government?
1. The Fertile Crescent got it's name by large, rich, fertile, farmland.
2. The fertile crescent expanded.
3. They did irrigation.
4. The government has to show leadership or else he'll be kicked out.
Assignment 2-4
Using The Six Characteristics of a Civilization (see below), answer the following questions clearly and with detailson your wiki page.
1. Is Korea/ the U.S. a civilization according to the six characteristics explained in class? Provide one example from Korea/the U.S. for each characteristic. 2. Does a civilization, in your opinion, need to have all of the characteristics mentioned? Why or why not?
1. 1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.
The system the government controls in the U.S is Democracy and Republican and etc.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
The United states has a stable food supply like farming, and refrigerators.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
The U.S has a society of different jobs in lots of different factories like making desks. The workers do everything while the boss just keeps the place nice and clean.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others
There are different social levels in the U.S. There are beggars who beg for money, people who have enough money to live a normal life, and the rich people that have so much money they give it to the poor.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
The U.S have highly developed cultures like the music. Now these days there are pop, rock, classic, and much much more.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
The U.S has a religious system for christian and jews. (No offense)
2.In my opinion we do need all of these characteristics because what will happen to entertainment without music and games or what will happen to a town without a leader!
The Six Characteristics of a Civilization:
1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
Assignment 2-5
Use your online textbook pages 63 & 64 to answer these questions clearly and with details on your wiki page. Make sure to look through the whole page in your textbook and the links for the vocabulary when answering some of the questions.
Where did the Akkadians live?
What was their relationship with the Sumerians like before the 2300s B.C.E.?
Who was Sargon and what did he do?
What did Sargon establish?
Define 'empire'.
Explain two examples why Sargon is considered a great leader.
How long did Sargon rule his empire?
What eventually happened to the Akkadian Empire?
Who eventually became the most powerful civilization in Mesopotamia again?
Using the picture of the City-State of Ur, what can you see in the picture that shows Ur was an advanced city?
1. They lived at the north of Sumer
2. The peace was broken before 2300 B.C.E
3. Sargon thought he can extend Akkadians territory. Thus he built the capital Akkad.
4. He built the capital Akkad.
5. Empire is a kingdom led by one person in particular.
6. Sargon is called a great leader because he was the first person to establish the world's first empire. Also he conquered lots of places.
7. Sargon ruled for more then 50 years.
8. The Akkadian empire was too big for new rulers however they just thought of conquering Mesopotamia that they became one of the most powerful civilization.
9. Sumerians
10. That they had a very protective walls with a town.
Assignment 2-6
After playing the Trader's Circuit, answer the following questions in complete sentences on your page. You can copy and paste these questions into your page. Then copy and paste your questions and answers onto your discussion tab. Then go to the discussion tabsof at least three other classmates and make good quality middle school comments about your classmates answers to the questions about the Trader's Circuit game. You can make comments to your classmates like if you agree or disagree or comments about how good their answers and ideas are. Trader's Circuit questions 1. What part of the game did you like the best? Why? 2. During the game, how did you feel and why did you feel that way? 3. What part of the game was difficult for you? 4. In your opinion, what advantage is there to having a monopoly of an entire product/resource such as dates or jewelry? 5. What part of the game would you change if you played it again? Why? 6. In this game, was it better to cooperate with another player or to be selfish and try to get all the products/resources for yourself? Why?
1.I liked the part when you were able to sort of yell and say stuff like I'm selling etc etc. I liked this part because I was able to yell on the building which I never did.
2.I felt okay because i was really fun.
3. The part that was difficult was the part when the other person wouldn't sell me the thing I need.
4. Everybody will go to me only to buy the thing I have monopoly in.
5.I would change the part that we can't go to other towns I would change this part because everybody wants to get something they would go anywhere to get it.
6. It would be better to cooperate because everybody can get a monopoly easily.
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Assignment 2-7 = Source: Read pages 74 and 75 in your online textbook Directions: Read the questions/directions carefully and write clear and detailed answers on your wiki page.
1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King?
2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE?
3. Where was Babylon located?
4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king?
5. What is a monarch?
6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire?
7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have?
8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover?
9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important.
10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire?
11. Read the different laws in the Code of Hammurabi on this site and choose three that you think are interesting. Copy the three laws and their numbers onto your page. Then for each law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law.
1. I will advise the king by telling him that are people are the same. I'll tell the king what kind of punishment the king should give the noble and the commoner should be equal.
2. Ur was in joy when Sargon the Great had died. Attacking drained Ur's strength by 2000 BCE Ur was in ruins.
3. Babylon was located near the Euphrates river also known as Baghdad, Iraq.
4. The person who became king is a person named Hammurabi he became king at 1792 BC.
5. A monarch is a ruler of a kingdom or a empire.
6. He named his empire Babylonian empire.
7. Hammurabi had another skill he can even govern a huge empire.
8. The Hammurabi's code is a law on daily life. The code covered almost or basically everything in life.
9. The Hammurabi code is important because first laws you have to keep or else the world will be crazy because people kill each other and they don't go to jail second the Hammurabi code is a law on trade, loan, marriage, theft, injury, and murder.
10. In the end because of Hammurabi's death the Babylon empire ended. This is similar to the Akkadian empire because when Sargon died this ended the Akkadian empire too.
11. 6. If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.
I think this is interesting because of the last sentence. Whoever retrieves the stolen thing shall be killed why? That person just went to get the stolen thing! I think this law is cruel.
14. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death.
I think this was interesting because people cared about there sons. I thought they just sold them to become rich. I think this rule is fair because this is like kidnapping if anyone steals a son that's kidnapping.
34. If a ... or a ... harm the property of a captain, injure the captain, or take away from the captain a gift presented to him by the king, then the . . . or . . . shall be put to death.
I think this one was interesting because of the ...'s also the fact that who would actually like to steal a captain's gift so that should
be a obvious rule. This is fair because anyone may not insult anyone that's higher then that person it's like a little kid saying swears to his mom.
Assignment 2-8
Source: Read pages 76 and 77 in your online textbook Directions: Review Pages 76-77 and choose one of the groups below. Research the group you have chosen (two links are provided for each already) and complete The Characteristics of Civilization Chart for the civilization you have chosen. Write clear and detailed answers in the chart, on your wiki page.
Characteristics of Civilization
Civilization Name: Assyrians
Six Characteristics of Civilization
Evidence for Characteristic
Explanation
1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.
Assyrians was conquered by other places for a long time.
Assyrians were conquered by a place called Hittites.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
Can't find
It's not on the links you can even check if you want.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
There are soldiers that steal!
These soldiers take people's beautiful and expensive things and all it a tribute.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.
Kings, Soldiers, traders, etc
Kings are the highest then priests however soldiers take gold and beautiful stuff and they called it a tribute.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
Trading Assyrians were very good traders.
The traders traveled from Assur and southern Turkey.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
The Assyrians believed in ancient gods.
Thus in the end the Assyrians believed in ancient gods.
Was it difficult to find evidence for the culture you picked? Why or why not?
Yes it was difficult to find the evidence for the culture I picked. It
Source: Carefully read your online textbook pages 88 and 89.(Note: Make sure you scroll down on page 89 to see more information.)
Your task is to label a map of the Nile River and ancient Egypt on your current Scribble Map. You must mark, label, or represent famous sites, cities, and other objects. Label everything carefully.
(Note: Mark means use a marker, label means use a text label, represent means draw a symbol to show the item.)
1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract. (Use the textbook to help you with this part.)
2. Label the Red Sea.
3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry
4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), and the oasis of Faiyum-Include dates, palm trees, and crocodiles. Provide an image and a description for each historic site
5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Hermopolis, Akhetaten, Memphis, Bubastis. Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine
6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta, the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.
7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Assignment 3-2
Source: Pages 93 & 94 in your online textbook and refer to your river boat tour notes Directions: Answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. Read the If YOU were there section. How do you feel about working for the pharaoh?
2. Eventually the Third Dynasty began in ancient Egypt. The Third Dynasty was the beginning of what historians call ............. . When did it start and end?
3. Explain how ancient Egyptians felt about their country and their pharaoh.
4. What were the responsibilities of the pharaoh?
5. What is best known about the famous pharaoh, Khufu? Can you name a specific monument built for him?
6.a Clearly explain the structure of society in the Old Kingdom. (Note: This should be a long answer.)
6.b. What may be some advantages and disadvantages of such a large segment of the population being farmers, servants, and slaves?
6.c. What did farmers do during flood season?
7. Clearly explain trading in ancient Egypt (what was traded and who they traded with).
8. Define the word acquire. Use acquire in an original sentence.
9. Using the drawing of Egyptian society on page 94, explain where Viziers would be placed?
1.I would feel good and bad at the same time or maybe at different times.
2. It was called old kingdom it started at 2700 B.C.E to 2200 B.C.E.
3. The Egyptians thought of the Pharaoh as a god or king. They thought of the country good.
4. The Pharaoh's job is to protect and make Egypt happy. If crops go bad they blame the Pharaoh.
5. He was cruel to his workers. He's best known for monuments that were built for him.
6a.By the end of the old kingdom the population was 70 million. As society grew social classes appeared. Egyptians believed well ordered society would keep them strong.
6b. The advantage is that they'll have lots of food and they won't need to work as much. However the disadvantage is that if someone attacks them they won't really have a strong army.
6c. The farmers would just work at the Pharaoh's building project.
7. They traded with their neighbors.
8. Def: Buy or obtain Sen: I never acquired a taste for whiskey.
9. Viziers should go to the noble's because they advice the Pharaoh what is a wise decision or not.
Assignment 3-3
Source:How to Mummify Nefermaat Directions: Go to the link above to mummify a body. As you work to mummify the body, answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
What are amulets and how were they used? Give two examples of amulets that were used and explain why they were used.
What happens to the body after it was mummified?
1. So that the soul can recognize himself.
2. They preserved the body by several stages by drying out the body and wrapping the body. That's how they preserved the body.
3. The brain was removed by putting in the mummy's nose a hook and they took it out. They threw the brain out because they didn't think it was useful,
4. The intestines, stomach, liver, and the lungs. They put these pieces into jars.
5. They did not remove the heart Egyptians thought the heart was the center of the intelligence, emotions, and feelings.
6. Natron is used is a salt that absorbs moisture.
7. They stuffed the mummy in with linen.
8. Amulets are stones that give you good luck. They were used by putting them on the mummy to grant good luck. Udjat is a amulet for good health it is shaped as the falcon god's eye. The Scarab is a dung beetle that means rebirth.
9. They put the mummy in a sarcophagus and then out him in a case for all eternity.
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Assignment 3-4
Part 1: Go to this site and read about the different Egyptian gods and goddesses. Choose one of these that you would like to be and explain why you would like to be that god or goddess. Then choose one that you would not want to be and explain why. Make sure your explanations are middle school quality explanations. Part 2: Compare these Egyptian gods and goddesses with the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses. Did you find similar gods? Name the gods/goddesses and clearly explain the similarities? Why do you think they are similar even though Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations were different?
Part 1: I would like to be the god Thoth the god of Writing and knowledge. The Egyptians they got their intelligence and writing skills by the god Thoth. I would like to be the God Thoth because I would like to have knowledge. Be smart and wise. This is my reason why I want to be the god Thoth. I would not like to be the God Anubis the god of embalming. I would not like to be this god because he killed his own brother who in the end became the god of the underworld. Since his brother Seth is god of the Underworld the Underworld is Seth's territory. When Anubis dies when he try's to go through the gates to the Underworld he'll die while going. His heart is not purified. His heart will be not purified because He killed his brother who in the end rules the Underworld. This is why I don't want to be The God Anubis.
Part 2: The god Thoth is similar to the god Ea (Enki) because the god Thoth is the god of Intelligence and writing. The god Ea(Enki) is the god of Wisdom which is sort of the same to intelligence. They both gave the world something. Thoth gave intelligence to the Human and Enka or Ea made us humans.
Assignment 3-5
Read the information here about the three kingdoms in ancient Egypt. The problem with these three paragraphs is that each paragraph does not have specific details or evidence. Your task is to find specific details and evidence from our textbook for the information presented in each paragraph about each kingdom. Then re-write the paragraph adding the new specific details and evidence you found. Write the new paragraph on your wiki page. Part 1 The Old Kingdom (2700 BCE - 2200 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 98-100 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Pyramids (definition, examples, construction details)
Workers
Importance of the pyramids
Part 2 The Middle Kingdom (2100 BCE - 1800 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
the difference with the Old Kingdom
what life was like during this time
wars or battles and who was involved
Part 1
The Pyramid is from the old kingdom because it even says it in the textbook. Some of the largest pyramid were made from the old kingdom like the Great Pyramid of Khufu that was near the town Giza. This pyramid alone took 2 million workers. The Pyramids did not have smooth sides. The pyramid started to become smooth around 2700 B.C.E. Workers were paid grains instead of money. The Pyramids are important because they represent the pharaohs journey to the after life.
Part 2
The difference with the old kingdom is that the middle kingdom is more earlier than the old kingdom. The old kingdom built pyramids while the middle kingdom had money problem. Life was hard during the Middle Kingdom because Hyksos ruled Egypt for 200 hundred years!
Assignment 3-5
Read the information here about the three kingdoms in ancient Egypt. The problem with these three paragraphs is that each paragraph does not have specific details or evidence. Your task is to find specific details and evidence from our textbook for the information presented in each paragraph about each kingdom. Then re-write the paragraph adding the new specific details and evidence you found. Write the new paragraph on your wiki page. Grade each paragraph for quality:
4=outstanding work, detailed, correct and above the call of duty
3=very good work, completes assignment, is above average
2=completes assignment correctly, average work
1=does not complete assignment, needs work
0=does not follow directions, assignment missing
Part 1 The Old Kingdom (2700 BCE - 2200 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 98-100 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Pyramids (definition, examples, construction details)
Workers
Importance of the pyramids
Part 2 The Middle Kingdom (2100 BCE - 1800 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
the difference with the Old Kingdom
what life was like during this time
wars or battles and who was involved
Part 3 The New Kingdom (1500 BCE - 1000 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
the causes of the growth of trade
what life was like in an empire
wars or battles (invasions) and who was involved
Part 1: I would give myself a 3 because it doesn't give out every single detail however I did what it said to do.
Part 2: I would give my self a 2 on this one because I sort of took instructions out.
Part 3: The cause of the growth trade was because of Hatshepsut she made a lot of trades and got items you can never get in Egypt. Life was very good in the empire. There was a war with Hyokos.
Assignment 3-8
Now that we are finished with the ancient Egypt unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about ancient Egypt. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page. If you need reminders of what we did, just scroll through the assignments on this page or look through your notes.
1. The single most important thing I learned was...
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...
3. What surprised me the most was...
4. I would like to know more about...
5. The part that I think I will always remember was...
Answers
1. The single most important thing I learned about Egypt is about Anubis. I never knew Anubi was replaces by Osiris.
2. I really didn't understand about the pharaoh's. Like which Pharaoh did what and what there names are.
3. I never knew marriage was so simple in Egypt. They just go to a girl they like talk to the dad and if the other dad agree they're married.
4. I would like to learn more about how they made the pyramids. How they planned everything.
5. The part I think I'll remember is the simple marriage.
Step 2:
Look at the picture of an artist's rendition of what Mohenjo-Daro might have looked like and answer the following Comprehension Questions on your wiki page (answers should be fully thought out and worthy of upper school).
ArtistsRenditionMohenjoDaro.jpg
A. What have you learned about daily life in Mohenjo-Daro from this activity? B. Which aspects of daily life do you see represented in the picture that the artist drew? C. In what ways do you think Mohenjo-Daro was like a modern city? D. Why do you think it is difficult for us to know exactly what life was like in ancient civilizations like those in the Indus-Sarasvati region? E. What do you think might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro?
Answers
A. I learned that Mohenjo-Daro people farmed the crops and used cows and wheel barrows to move the crops from one place to another. Then I knew that Terra Cotta is a huge resource in Mohenjo-Daro because the sewer system was made out of Terra Cotta also the houses were made out of Terra Cotta.
B. I see the people in Mohenjo Daro moving crops with cows and barrows because in front of the door you can see cows bringing a wheel barrow behind him.
C. The way they have people working and cows or animals helping them pull items for sale.
D. I think the reason we don't know that much about Mohanjo-Daro is because it was from along time ago and we don't have really not that many hints about them. The items they used were all destroyed and there is no person who lived in Mohanjo Daro like was born there.
E. I think it is because Mohenjo Daro were poor people and the other people didn't really want them on their side because they wouldn't help that much. Assignment 4-1 Source: IndiaSubcontinentMapTrans.jpg
Directions: Look at the map above, read the text below, and answer the following questions on your wiki page:
In the 1990's, satellite pictures revealed an ancient, dried riverbed located in India's present-day Thar Desert. Geologists have identified this riverbed as the route of the ancient Sarasvati River. The Sarasvati lay east of the Indus River and generally followed the same course, originating in the Himalaya mountains and emptying into the Arabian Sea. Geologists believe that the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E. Over time, the once fertile area around the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E. Over time, the once fertile area around the Sarasvati evolved into the dry, hot desert that exists today.
Early Indian agricultural settlements arose in the Indus-Sarasvati river region at least as far back as 6500 B.C.E. Like many other ancient peoples, the early Indians settled by rivers. They settled primarily on the banks of the Sarasvati River as well as along the banks of the Indus River. These rivers provided the ancient Indians with plenty of water, and the land near the rivers was fertile and excellent for growing crops. The rivers also provided the Indians with a convenient way to travel and trade among themselves and with other civilizations. Archeologists have found artifacts from the Indus-Sarasvati civilization - such as carved seals - in Mesopotamia's Sumer. These discoveries have led scholars to believe that the early Indians traded with Mesopotamia, possibly by traveling in ships down the Indus and Sarasvati rivers to the Arabian Sea and then west to Sumer and other locations.
After the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E., the Indus-Sarasvati Indians moved to more habitable areas, such as the fertile banks of the Ganga river further east. Archeological evidence shows, however, that people settled by the Ganga River as far back as 5000 B.C.E.
Questions:
1. In what ways is your map similar to the one that you see in the map above?
My map is similar because it has all the geographical features that the map above has.
2. What physiographic features can you identify on this map that are not on your map?
nothing.
3. Why do you think settlements developed along the Indus and Sarasvati rivers? Explain with clear and complete details.
Because the Indus and Sarasvati rivers are fertile areas where you can grow crops.
4. Accurately draw and label the ancient Sarasvati River on your map.
5. Why did ancient Indian people eventually migrate to the Ganga River?because that river too has a fertile area of land.
1. My map is similar because my map has all of the things this map includes.
2. The difference is the color parts of the map is shaded in while my map doesn't do it.
3. I think there was a settlement near the Indus river because there was a fresh water supply and some meat to eat.
5. Because that river too has a fertile are of land. Assignment 4-2 Website: Indus Valley Use the website above to answer these questions. Write your answers in complete sentences with clear details on your wiki page.
1. What was discovered during the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro?
2. How is Mohenjo-Daro similar to our cities today?
3. What can we learn from archaeological discoveries (such as artifacts and city construction) in Mohenjo-Daro?
4. Give clear and specific information about how people lived in Mohenjo-Daro. In your answer, you have to talk about the artifacts that you discovered and put into the museum.
5. What do we know about the Priest-King?
6. What was the Great Bath and how was it used?
It was used as a public bath.
1. The items that were found during the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro is bricks, well, and houses.
2. It's similair to our city today because of the sewer system and there well going community.
3. We can learn how the people in Mohenjo-Daro looked like, how there houses looked like, and see what kind of jobs they have.
4. People in Mohenjo-Daro used carts or boats to move things around, we can learn that Mohenjo-Daro people had what kind of hair they had, they used weights to trade at a right amount, they wear beautiful jewelry, and they used seals for charms.
5. The priest king was a important person he was either a king or a important priest.
6. The Great Bath was a humongous pool for people. It was basically a swimming pool. Assignment 4-3 Source:
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Archeologists Ideas Mohenjo-Daro.pdf
Think about the activity we did in class as archeologists in Mohenjo-Daro. Using the source above, your ideas, and the notes you took about archeologists ideas, answer the following questions clearly and completely on your wiki page. Each answer should be at least two sentences long with specific information.
1. What have you learned about daily life in Mohenjo-Daro from this activity?
I learned that in daily life in Mohenjo-Daro that everything in the society depended on the specialization of labor.
2. Which characteristics of civilization do you see represented in the artifacts you looked at? Explain.
On these artifacts I saw the specialization of labor.
3. In what ways do you think Mohenjo-Daro was like a modern city?
I think that the vast plumbing made mohenjo daro like a modern city.
4. Why do you think it is difficult for us to know exactly what life was like in ancient civilizations like those in the Indus-Sarasvati region?
5. What do you think might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro?
Invasions from another city might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro.
1. I learned that in Mohenjo-Daro daily life they weigh rice with hard mud clay, men have a beard and have flowery cloth and have a stone necklace. Mohenjo Daro also have entertainment like board games when they're board.
2. On these artifacts I saw a specialization of labor they put water into a huge pool to swim or to clean in. They also have a okay sewer system because they have a well and some sewer pipes.
3. To me Mohenjo Daro is a modern city because of their sewer system. Not that many places have a sewer system a long time ago.
4. It is hard because all of the items from Mohenjo Daro are gone. Also theres not that many things we can know from building unless the building contains items from history.
5. Invasions from another city might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro. Also other places could have declined because they didn't want to cooperate with Mohenjo Daro. Assignment 4-4 Answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. What varna were you in during the caste system simulation?
2. What was your favorite part about the caste system simulation? Why?
3. What part of the simulation made you angry, upset, or frustrated? Why?
4. Do you think this system is fair? Why or why not?
5. Do you think a society should organize people into social classes? Why or Why not?
1. I was in the law makers and warriors.
2. My favorite part in this simulation is when I had the power to make the lower class work for me. I liked this part because I never had anyone working for me in the real world however I finally got to see what a king got to do.
3. The part that made me angry was the part when the lower class wouldn't listen to me. This made me angry because that person is a lower class when I'm a higher class then him or her.
4. I think this system is fair because the law makers or Brahaman were fair or followed there Dharma their last life and the laborers didn't follow there Dharma in there last life.
5. I think they should put the society in classes because if you put the lower classes with the higher classes people will get confused and the lower classes can act like the higher classes and that won't be fair! Assignment 4-5
Website: India-Government
Use the website above and what you have learned in class so far to answer these questions about the early Indus River Governments.
1. Why would having a central government help in planning and organizing a city?
2. Who were Rajahs?
3. What is a Guru?
4. What subjects were taught in school?
5. Who was in charge of the government?
6. Why did people look up to the priests?
1. This would help because central government are a leader and can tell people to do this that etc.
2. Rajah's are king's.
3. Guru is a type of teacher.
4. All of the subjects were religious systems.
5. The indus preists is in charge of the government.
6. People looked up to priests because they are messengers from god.
After completing yourUnderstanding How Ashoka's Edicts Helped Unify India sheet answer the following comprehension questions:
1. What are the main ideas expressed in Ashoka's edicts?
2. What are some of the ways in which Ashoka's leadership promoted unity in India?
3. In what ways did Ashoka's Buddhist beliefs contribute to the unification of India?
4. In addition to the edicts, what else might have contributed to the unification of India during this time period?
5. Explain how one of the edicts you examined could be catagorized another way
(i.e. instead of Buddhist Values it could also concern Justice)
1. The main idea in the Ashoka's edicts are don't fight be fair.
2. Ashoka's leadership promoted unity of India because he put fair laws and won't torture people without a good cause.
3. Ashoka's Buddhist beliefs contribute to the unification of India because of peace.
4. What else that have contributed to the unification of India is the reign of Ahoka after he became Buddha.
5. I can also be in Buddhist value because they are aloud three days before they are sentence to death. In that time they can pray and hope they get a better life in the next life.
Assignment 6-3
Directions: Read the following information about the Minoans and the Mycenaeans and then answer the questions that follow in your notebook.
The Origins of the Greeks
The Minoans:
Minoan culture developed on the island of Crete in approximately 3,000 B.C.E. Minoan palace murals (wall paintings) and painted pottery show us a great sea culture, fueled by fishing, farming, and local arts. The Minoans were master sailors and set up long-distance trade routes with Spain, Egypt, Canaan, and Asia Minor. Socially, the Minoans were an egalitarian (equal) culture, with both men and women holding respected positions in the fields of religion, agriculture, and craftwork. Recreation enjoyed by the Minoans included dancing to music and song, "bull-leaping" - and boxing, complete with boxing gloves and mouth guards. The remarkable peace-loving character of the Minoan civilization is obvious because they didn't have fortresses, war equipment, and painted battle scenes among the remains of their settlements. The Minoan civilization is historically important to Greece because it was the model for the Mycenaean (pronounced my-sih-NEE-in) civilization which is considered the earliest developed culture on mainland Greece.
The Mycenaeans:
Mycenae was settled in 2,700 B.C.E. Most of the myths about ancient Greek heroes and their famous battles come to us from the Mycenaeans. Later Greek poets such as Homer used these tales in their writings. The Mycenaeans spoke an early form of the Greek language, and developed an agricultural economy based on grains, grapes, and olives. Like the Minoans, they traded by sea with Egypt and Asia Minor. Unlike the Minoans, the Mycenaeans devoted most of their energies to developing a strong military. The circular royal tombs of Mycenae reveal collections of decorated uniforms, elaborate helmets, chariots, daggers, and axes. Horses were also extremely important to the Mycenaeans, as they were the vehicles of war. Mycenaean documents suggest that their society was hierarchical, with kings and soldiers in positions of power at the top of society, and prisoners of war who became slaves at the bottom of society who served the kings and soldiers. Other than artwork showing religious festivals and musical performances, very few artifacts of entertainment were left by the Mycenaeans.
1. What did the Minoan and the Mycenaean civilizations have in common? 2. In what ways were the Minoan and the Mycenaean civilizations different? 3. Why do you think so many aspects of Minoan civilization are found at Mycenae? 4. What other geographical areas, besides Mycenae, might Minoan civilization have influenced? 5. What aspects of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations would you expect to have survived in later periods of Greek history? 6. Using your textbook pages 256-257, explain how the decline of the Minoans and the Mycenaeans was similar.
1. They both had a trade route to Egypt.
2. Mycenaean not like Minoan Mycenaean putting most of their energy on military while Minoan were very good at sailing.
3. I think so many Minoan civilization is found at Mycenae because the Mycenae role model is Minoan.
4. I think other places are Egypt.
5. They would have survived because they were sailors and can fight on the sea well or good.
6. The decline was that they both got destroyed by either a bad location and weak army.
Assignment 6-5
Athens Creates Democracy (p.264-265)
Democracy is a type of government in which people rule themselves instead of being ruled by one person like a King.
-500 BCE, Athenian leader Cleisthenes (KLYS-thuh-neez) develops world's first democracy in Athens
-At the Assembly, they discussed, debated, and, finally, voted on important issues such as changing voting laws or how to fight the Persians who wanted to control Greece.
Copy the following venn diagram in your notebook. Then, using all of the sources above, compare each polis by filling in the proper area in the venn diagram.
Scribble Map!
Day 3 for the tour:
Illustrated Poem
Extra Credit
Study Guide
Hominids and their Characteristics
Australopithecus: The Australopithecus can walk on there legs. There brain is one third then our brain.Homo Habilis: The Homo Habilis learned how to make early stone tools. There brain is half of our brain.
Homo Erectus: The Homo Erectus made the hand ax. Also they learned how to make fire and use it.
Homo Sapiens: The Homo Sapiens developed language and they were able to control fire.
Aspects of Daily life effects notes
The aspects of daily life: Walking on two legs.Learning how to farm
stone tools
food source...?
Vocabulary:
prehistory: Period of time
hominid: A family
ancestor: Relatives
tool: Items to help us in the world.
Paleolithic Era:society:hunter-gatherers: They hunt and gather
Time lines
The first: Australopithecus2nd:Homo Habilis
3rd:Homo Erectus
4th:Homo Sapiens
Other notes:
Assignment
David Kwak 8/21/09
1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year?
2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215
3. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? Type in the content of your page here
1. Born in CE year
2.BC 3100, 15 BCE, AD 3, AD 476, CE1215, AD 2000
3. AD 1000 means After Christ and it's the year 1000
Assignment 2
Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class.
Question 1: When was the Emergence of modern humans?
Answer 1: It was in the 100,000 B.C.E
Question 2: Did making Pyramids come first or did alphabets come first?
Answer 2: The Pyramids came first.
Question 3: How many events were there before the Pyramids and after it?
Answer 3: There was ten after and seven event before the pyramid.
Question 4: When were the Burins invented?
Answer 4: The Burin was invented in 45,000 B.C.E
Question 5: Did the invention of paper come first or did the invention of money?
Answer 5: The invention of money came first.
Assignment 3
Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project Response
Note you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See Resources-1
Answer the following questions on your wiki page.
1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project?
2. What Problems did your group run into?
3. How did your group deal with these problems?
4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories.
5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
1.My roles in the puppet show is Marduk and the Narrator.Also I was props manager.
2. Our group had two problems. The first problem was that our puppets size was to small. Our other problem was that we missed some puppets like the monsters.
3. For the first problem we fixed it by just getting it closer and sometimes smaller which worked. The second problem we fixed by using our hands.
4. The two similarities is that the first one is that all of these story's included humans. The other similarities is that all of the gods were angry or sad at least once because for our story (the one with Marduk) other gods besides Marduk and his father were living a good life. When all the other gods are angry at Marduk. For the Egypt story the god Ra was sad that his creations were gone! For the Chinese one the girl goddess was sad because she had no friends. For the Greek story Zeus gets angry at other gods because he forbidden fire out of the heavens but Prometheus took the fire and gave it too the humans so Zeus was angry. This is interesting! Why do you think this is so?
5. Egypt Story and the Chinese Story
In the Egypt story there is a god there is also a god in the Chinese story. Both of the gods are lonely. However later on they make friends or family members. Both gods are like monsters. lonely in beginning happy in the end. For the Egypt story the god cry's to make people. However the Chinese story the god makes the humans. Thus these are my compare and contrast.
Assignment 4
Please read pages 29 & 30 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found?
2. What is the scientific name of Lucy?
3. How long ago did Lucy live?
4. What was an important step in human development?
5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.
Make sure your answer is clear and detailed.
6. Which hominid are you?
1. Lucy and the other hominids were found at Africa.
2. The scientific name for Lucy is Australopithecus.
3. Lucy lived for more then 3 million years ago.
4. There are two important developments. The first one is our species walking on two feet. The other important development is making tools out of stones.
5. Australopithecus and homo habilis are different because they both came from a different time period. The Australopithecus was one third the size of our brain. The homo habilis are smarter then the Australopithecus because the homo habilis had half the size of our brains. The homo erectus learned to control fire, made stone tools, and they migrated. The Homo sapiens are wise mans because they developed language. Thus basically Homo sapiens are us the smartest ones yet.
6. We are homo sapiens.
Assignment 5
Read pages 32-34 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.1. Because if they find a artifact then they'll study it.
2. One of the advantage is being able to use the hands.
3. In the Paleolithic Era time the tools they used was the flint knives, obsidian knives, spears, brushes, and baskets.
4. If I could make a tool i'll make a tool that can make pictures on the wall. Thus that people can know how we lived.
5. A hunter gatherer is a person who gathers food for living.
6. To me the most important change would be the language because without it we could be speaking random word like uga booga. Doesn't really answer the question
7. Prehistory: The period of time.
Paleolithic Era: Along time ago period.
Tools: Objects to make life easier.
Hunter Gatherer: A person who hunts and gather for a living.
Assignment 6
Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions clearly and completely. Please put your answers on your wiki page.1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?).
Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:
2. What is another name for the New Stone Age?
3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for?
4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be?
5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution?
6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'?
7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia?
8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated?
9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different.
1. This discovery could have changed my life because then people would know how to farm instead of going everywhere searching for food. People can just relax in the a place and farm and ta-da they get a tree full of fruits.
2. Another name for the New Stone Age is the Neolithic Era.
3. The people at this time made fire, drills, and saws. They made these items so that they can have a easier life.
4. The new stone age people was able to make fire.
5. I think it's called a revolution because people throw away the old age and gets the new age.
6. Domesticated means keeping as a pet.
7. The place that was domesticated is Asia.
8. The first place Domesticated for corn is Maize.
9. Hunters go out to get meat. Farmers just get animals from a place where he stores the animals. Hunters need to move around and gather plants. Farmers just farm and harvests his crop. Hunters makes weapons. Farmers don't really need weapons.
Assignment 7
Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.Answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period?
2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period?
3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture?
1. Which hominid is Lucy?
2. Why is the Neolithic Revolution important to us?
3. Why is Lucy so important.
1. In the Paleolithic period it was not advanced as the Neolithic because in Paleolithic they made the stone ax. On the Neolithic they made more stuff like drill, and etc.
2. They changed because they didn't need to hunt and they would just go to the plants or animals to get food.
3. The advantage is life becomes more easy. However the disadvantage is that there are valuable minerals disappearing from the earth.
Assignment 8
Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.- Catal Huyuk video 1
- Catal Huyuk video 2
1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you?2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class?
3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. (Note: Simply saying you have cell phones and she doesn't is an unacceptable answer.)
Assignment 9
Now that we are finished with the Early Humans unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about Early Humans. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page.1. The single most important thing I learned was...
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...
3. What surprised me the most was...
4. I would like to know more about...
5. The part that I think I will always remember was...
1. The most important thing I learned was that they did surgery's even with stones.
2. The thing that confused me was Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, and Homo Sapiens. Also the timeline confused me.
3. The thing that surprised me the most is that even in the stone age they knew where to put a hole in or doing surgery's.
4. I would like to learn more about Lucy.
5.I will always remember the surgery with stone tools.
Assignment 2-1
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the Class Activity to help you answer the questions.
Event A: Food Shortage
1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia?
2. What does cultivate mean?
3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have?
4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why?
Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply
1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains?
2. How did they solve these problems?
3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from?
Event A. Food Shortage
1. Better technology, increased food supply, and stronger shelter made the population grow.
2. Cultivate means grow.
3. The problem at the Zagros hill was too much population meant food shortage.
4. C. because the more people there is the more meat you could get. When the food shortage problem is over they can go back to farming.
Event B. Uncontrolled Water supply
1. There were floods and the land was too dry.
2. They made a dam.
3. It came from the river.
Assignment 2-2
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the In Class Activity 2-1 called Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System & Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities to help you answer the questions.
Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System
1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
2. How did farmers prevent flooding?
3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please clearly explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers?
4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food?
5. What could happen if one canal was clogged?
6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system?
Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities
1. How did Mesopotamian villages help each other?
2. How were people, who lived very far apart, connected to each other?
3. What did many villages grow into?
4. What do we call the region in Mesopotamia that had many growing cities and towns? What are the people called that come from this region?
5. How could one city stop the water from reaching another city?
6. Why was it easy to attack other cities on the Mesopotamian plains?
7. What defense plan is best to protect a city?
Event C
1. The way to get water was by getting them in buckets.
2. They made a canal.
3. Levees were a dam preventing the water to the fields and also making the amount of water on it increase. Then they would poke a hole and make the water come out and water their fields.
4. The word is surplus.
5. Then all the other towns canal would stop working then.
6. They would cooperate with each other.
Event D
1. They basically cooperated.
2. They were connected by the canals.
3. Many villages grew into a city or town.
4. The place that's been growing is Sumer and the people are called sumerians.
5. They can block the canals.
6. It was easy because there was no big security and it was all flat open land.
7. Building walls around the city.
Assignment 2-3
Please read pages 56-59 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.1. How did the Fertile Crescent get its name?
2. What was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile?
3. In what ways did a Division of Labor contribute to the growth of Mesopotamiam civilization?
4. How might running large projects like the maintaining a large and complex irrigation system prepare people for running a government?
1. The Fertile Crescent got it's name by large, rich, fertile, farmland.
2. The fertile crescent expanded.
3. They did irrigation.
4. The government has to show leadership or else he'll be kicked out.
Assignment 2-4
Using The Six Characteristics of a Civilization (see below), answer the following questions clearly and with detailson your wiki page.
1. Is Korea/ the U.S. a civilization according to the six characteristics explained in class? Provide one example from Korea/the U.S. for each characteristic.2. Does a civilization, in your opinion, need to have all of the characteristics mentioned? Why or why not?
1. 1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.
The system the government controls in the U.S is Democracy and Republican and etc.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
The United states has a stable food supply like farming, and refrigerators.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
The U.S has a society of different jobs in lots of different factories like making desks. The workers do everything while the boss just keeps the place nice and clean.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others
There are different social levels in the U.S. There are beggars who beg for money, people who have enough money to live a normal life, and the rich people that have so much money they give it to the poor.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
The U.S have highly developed cultures like the music. Now these days there are pop, rock, classic, and much much more.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
The U.S has a religious system for christian and jews. (No offense)
2.In my opinion we do need all of these characteristics because what will happen to entertainment without music and games or what will happen to a town without a leader!
The Six Characteristics of a Civilization:
1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
Assignment 2-5
Use your online textbook pages 63 & 64 to answer these questions clearly and with details on your wiki page. Make sure to look through the whole page in your textbook and the links for the vocabulary when answering some of the questions.1. They lived at the north of Sumer
2. The peace was broken before 2300 B.C.E
3. Sargon thought he can extend Akkadians territory. Thus he built the capital Akkad.
4. He built the capital Akkad.
5. Empire is a kingdom led by one person in particular.
6. Sargon is called a great leader because he was the first person to establish the world's first empire. Also he conquered lots of places.
7. Sargon ruled for more then 50 years.
8. The Akkadian empire was too big for new rulers however they just thought of conquering Mesopotamia that they became one of the most powerful civilization.
9. Sumerians
10. That they had a very protective walls with a town.
Assignment 2-6
After playing the Trader's Circuit, answer the following questions in complete sentences on your page. You can copy and paste these questions into your page. Then copy and paste your questions and answers onto your discussion tab. Then go to the discussion tabsof at least three other classmates and make good quality middle school comments about your classmates answers to the questions about the Trader's Circuit game. You can make comments to your classmates like if you agree or disagree or comments about how good their answers and ideas are.Trader's Circuit questions
1. What part of the game did you like the best? Why?
2. During the game, how did you feel and why did you feel that way?
3. What part of the game was difficult for you?
4. In your opinion, what advantage is there to having a monopoly of an entire product/resource such as dates or jewelry?
5. What part of the game would you change if you played it again? Why?
6. In this game, was it better to cooperate with another player or to be selfish and try to get all the products/resources for yourself? Why?
1.I liked the part when you were able to sort of yell and say stuff like I'm selling etc etc. I liked this part because I was able to yell on the building which I never did.
2.I felt okay because i was really fun.
3. The part that was difficult was the part when the other person wouldn't sell me the thing I need.
4. Everybody will go to me only to buy the thing I have monopoly in.
5.I would change the part that we can't go to other towns I would change this part because everybody wants to get something they would go anywhere to get it.
6. It would be better to cooperate because everybody can get a monopoly easily.
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Assignment 2-7 =
Source: Read pages 74 and 75 in your online textbook
Directions: Read the questions/directions carefully and write clear and detailed answers on your wiki page.
1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King?
2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE?
3. Where was Babylon located?
4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king?
5. What is a monarch?
6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire?
7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have?
8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover?
9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important.
10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire?
11. Read the different laws in the Code of Hammurabi on this site and choose three that you think are interesting. Copy the three laws and their numbers onto your page. Then for each law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law.
1. I will advise the king by telling him that are people are the same. I'll tell the king what kind of punishment the king should give the noble and the commoner should be equal.
2. Ur was in joy when Sargon the Great had died. Attacking drained Ur's strength by 2000 BCE Ur was in ruins.
3. Babylon was located near the Euphrates river also known as Baghdad, Iraq.
4. The person who became king is a person named Hammurabi he became king at 1792 BC.
5. A monarch is a ruler of a kingdom or a empire.
6. He named his empire Babylonian empire.
7. Hammurabi had another skill he can even govern a huge empire.
8. The Hammurabi's code is a law on daily life. The code covered almost or basically everything in life.
9. The Hammurabi code is important because first laws you have to keep or else the world will be crazy because people kill each other and they don't go to jail second the Hammurabi code is a law on trade, loan, marriage, theft, injury, and murder.
10. In the end because of Hammurabi's death the Babylon empire ended. This is similar to the Akkadian empire because when Sargon died this ended the Akkadian empire too.
11.
6. If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.
I think this is interesting because of the last sentence. Whoever retrieves the stolen thing shall be killed why? That person just went to get the stolen thing! I think this law is cruel.
14. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death.
I think this was interesting because people cared about there sons. I thought they just sold them to become rich. I think this rule is fair because this is like kidnapping if anyone steals a son that's kidnapping.
34. If a ... or a ... harm the property of a captain, injure the captain, or take away from the captain a gift presented to him by the king, then the . . . or . . . shall be put to death.
I think this one was interesting because of the ...'s also the fact that who would actually like to steal a captain's gift so that should
be a obvious rule. This is fair because anyone may not insult anyone that's higher then that person it's like a little kid saying swears to his mom.
Assignment 2-8
Source: Read pages 76 and 77 in your online textbookDirections: Review Pages 76-77 and choose one of the groups below. Research the group you have chosen (two links are provided for each already) and complete The Characteristics of Civilization Chart for the civilization you have chosen. Write clear and detailed answers in the chart, on your wiki page.
Characteristics of Civilization
Civilization Name: Assyrians
Six Characteristics of Civilization
Evidence for Characteristic
Explanation
Was it difficult to find evidence for the culture you picked? Why or why not?
Yes it was difficult to find the evidence for the culture I picked. It
Assyrians
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/assyrians.htmhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/egypt/a/assyriaintro.htm
Hittites
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/HITTITES.HTMhttp://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/hittites.htm
Chaldeans
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/middle_east/nebuchadnezzar.htmlhttp://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/CHALDEAN.HTM
Assignment 3-1
Source: Carefully read your online textbook pages 88 and 89. (Note: Make sure you scroll down on page 89 to see more information.)
Your task is to label a map of the Nile River and ancient Egypt on your current Scribble Map. You must mark, label, or represent famous sites, cities, and other objects. Label everything carefully.
(Note: Mark means use a marker, label means use a text label, represent means draw a symbol to show the item.)
1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract. (Use the textbook to help you with this part.)
2. Label the Red Sea.
3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry
4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), and the oasis of Faiyum-Include dates, palm trees, and crocodiles. Provide an image and a description for each historic site
5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Hermopolis, Akhetaten, Memphis, Bubastis. Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine
6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta, the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.
7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Assignment 3-2
Source: Pages 93 & 94 in your online textbook and refer to your river boat tour notesDirections: Answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. Read the If YOU were there section. How do you feel about working for the pharaoh?
2. Eventually the Third Dynasty began in ancient Egypt. The Third Dynasty was the beginning of what historians call ............. . When did it start and end?
3. Explain how ancient Egyptians felt about their country and their pharaoh.
4. What were the responsibilities of the pharaoh?
5. What is best known about the famous pharaoh, Khufu? Can you name a specific monument built for him?
6.a Clearly explain the structure of society in the Old Kingdom. (Note: This should be a long answer.)
6.b. What may be some advantages and disadvantages of such a large segment of the population being farmers, servants, and slaves?
6.c. What did farmers do during flood season?
7. Clearly explain trading in ancient Egypt (what was traded and who they traded with).
8. Define the word acquire. Use acquire in an original sentence.
9. Using the drawing of Egyptian society on page 94, explain where Viziers would be placed?
1.I would feel good and bad at the same time or maybe at different times.
2. It was called old kingdom it started at 2700 B.C.E to 2200 B.C.E.
3. The Egyptians thought of the Pharaoh as a god or king. They thought of the country good.
4. The Pharaoh's job is to protect and make Egypt happy. If crops go bad they blame the Pharaoh.
5. He was cruel to his workers. He's best known for monuments that were built for him.
6a.By the end of the old kingdom the population was 70 million. As society grew social classes appeared. Egyptians believed well ordered society would keep them strong.
6b. The advantage is that they'll have lots of food and they won't need to work as much. However the disadvantage is that if someone attacks them they won't really have a strong army.
6c. The farmers would just work at the Pharaoh's building project.
7. They traded with their neighbors.
8. Def: Buy or obtain Sen: I never acquired a taste for whiskey.
9. Viziers should go to the noble's because they advice the Pharaoh what is a wise decision or not.
Assignment 3-3
Source: How to Mummify NefermaatDirections: Go to the link above to mummify a body. As you work to mummify the body, answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. So that the soul can recognize himself.
2. They preserved the body by several stages by drying out the body and wrapping the body. That's how they preserved the body.
3. The brain was removed by putting in the mummy's nose a hook and they took it out. They threw the brain out because they didn't think it was useful,
4. The intestines, stomach, liver, and the lungs. They put these pieces into jars.
5. They did not remove the heart Egyptians thought the heart was the center of the intelligence, emotions, and feelings.
6. Natron is used is a salt that absorbs moisture.
7. They stuffed the mummy in with linen.
8. Amulets are stones that give you good luck. They were used by putting them on the mummy to grant good luck. Udjat is a amulet for good health it is shaped as the falcon god's eye. The Scarab is a dung beetle that means rebirth.
9. They put the mummy in a sarcophagus and then out him in a case for all eternity.
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Assignment 3-4
Part 1: Go to this site and read about the different Egyptian gods and goddesses. Choose one of these that you would like to be and explain why you would like to be that god or goddess. Then choose one that you would not want to be and explain why. Make sure your explanations are middle school quality explanations.Part 2: Compare these Egyptian gods and goddesses with the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses. Did you find similar gods? Name the gods/goddesses and clearly explain the similarities? Why do you think they are similar even though Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations were different?
Part 1: I would like to be the god Thoth the god of Writing and knowledge. The Egyptians they got their intelligence and writing skills by the god Thoth. I would like to be the God Thoth because I would like to have knowledge. Be smart and wise. This is my reason why I want to be the god Thoth. I would not like to be the God Anubis the god of embalming. I would not like to be this god because he killed his own brother who in the end became the god of the underworld. Since his brother Seth is god of the Underworld the Underworld is Seth's territory. When Anubis dies when he try's to go through the gates to the Underworld he'll die while going. His heart is not purified. His heart will be not purified because He killed his brother who in the end rules the Underworld. This is why I don't want to be The God Anubis.
Part 2: The god Thoth is similar to the god Ea (Enki) because the god Thoth is the god of Intelligence and writing. The god Ea(Enki) is the god of Wisdom which is sort of the same to intelligence. They both gave the world something. Thoth gave intelligence to the Human and Enka or Ea made us humans.
Assignment 3-5
Read the information here about the three kingdoms in ancient Egypt. The problem with these three paragraphs is that each paragraph does not have specific details or evidence. Your task is to find specific details and evidence from our textbook for the information presented in each paragraph about each kingdom. Then re-write the paragraph adding the new specific details and evidence you found. Write the new paragraph on your wiki page.Part 1
The Old Kingdom (2700 BCE - 2200 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 98-100 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Part 2
The Middle Kingdom (2100 BCE - 1800 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Part 1
The Pyramid is from the old kingdom because it even says it in the textbook. Some of the largest pyramid were made from the old kingdom like the Great Pyramid of Khufu that was near the town Giza. This pyramid alone took 2 million workers. The Pyramids did not have smooth sides. The pyramid started to become smooth around 2700 B.C.E. Workers were paid grains instead of money. The Pyramids are important because they represent the pharaohs journey to the after life.
Part 2
The difference with the old kingdom is that the middle kingdom is more earlier than the old kingdom. The old kingdom built pyramids while the middle kingdom had money problem. Life was hard during the Middle Kingdom because Hyksos ruled Egypt for 200 hundred years!
Assignment 3-5
Read the information here about the three kingdoms in ancient Egypt. The problem with these three paragraphs is that each paragraph does not have specific details or evidence. Your task is to find specific details and evidence from our textbook for the information presented in each paragraph about each kingdom. Then re-write the paragraph adding the new specific details and evidence you found. Write the new paragraph on your wiki page. Grade each paragraph for quality:4=outstanding work, detailed, correct and above the call of duty
3=very good work, completes assignment, is above average
2=completes assignment correctly, average work
1=does not complete assignment, needs work
0=does not follow directions, assignment missing
Part 1
The Old Kingdom (2700 BCE - 2200 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 98-100 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Part 2
The Middle Kingdom (2100 BCE - 1800 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Part 3
The New Kingdom (1500 BCE - 1000 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Part 1: I would give myself a 3 because it doesn't give out every single detail however I did what it said to do.
Part 2: I would give my self a 2 on this one because I sort of took instructions out.
Part 3: The cause of the growth trade was because of Hatshepsut she made a lot of trades and got items you can never get in Egypt. Life was very good in the empire. There was a war with Hyokos.
Assignment 3-8
Now that we are finished with the ancient Egypt unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about ancient Egypt. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page. If you need reminders of what we did, just scroll through the assignments on this page or look through your notes.1. The single most important thing I learned was...
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...
3. What surprised me the most was...
4. I would like to know more about...
5. The part that I think I will always remember was...
Answers
1. The single most important thing I learned about Egypt is about Anubis. I never knew Anubi was replaces by Osiris.
2. I really didn't understand about the pharaoh's. Like which Pharaoh did what and what there names are.
3. I never knew marriage was so simple in Egypt. They just go to a girl they like talk to the dad and if the other dad agree they're married.
4. I would like to learn more about how they made the pyramids. How they planned everything.
5. The part I think I'll remember is the simple marriage.
Step 2:
Look at the picture of an artist's rendition of what Mohenjo-Daro might have looked like and answer the following Comprehension Questions on your wiki page (answers should be fully thought out and worthy of upper school).A. What have you learned about daily life in Mohenjo-Daro from this activity?
B. Which aspects of daily life do you see represented in the picture that the artist drew?
C. In what ways do you think Mohenjo-Daro was like a modern city?
D. Why do you think it is difficult for us to know exactly what life was like in ancient civilizations like those in the Indus-Sarasvati region?
E. What do you think might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro?
Answers
A. I learned that Mohenjo-Daro people farmed the crops and used cows and wheel barrows to move the crops from one place to another. Then I knew that Terra Cotta is a huge resource in Mohenjo-Daro because the sewer system was made out of Terra Cotta also the houses were made out of Terra Cotta.
B. I see the people in Mohenjo Daro moving crops with cows and barrows because in front of the door you can see cows bringing a wheel barrow behind him.
C. The way they have people working and cows or animals helping them pull items for sale.
D. I think the reason we don't know that much about Mohanjo-Daro is because it was from along time ago and we don't have really not that many hints about them. The items they used were all destroyed and there is no person who lived in Mohanjo Daro like was born there.
E. I think it is because Mohenjo Daro were poor people and the other people didn't really want them on their side because they wouldn't help that much.
Assignment 4-1
Source: IndiaSubcontinentMapTrans.jpg
Directions: Look at the map above, read the text below, and answer the following questions on your wiki page:
In the 1990's, satellite pictures revealed an ancient, dried riverbed located in India's present-day Thar Desert. Geologists have identified this riverbed as the route of the ancient Sarasvati River. The Sarasvati lay east of the Indus River and generally followed the same course, originating in the Himalaya mountains and emptying into the Arabian Sea. Geologists believe that the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E. Over time, the once fertile area around the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E. Over time, the once fertile area around the Sarasvati evolved into the dry, hot desert that exists today.
Early Indian agricultural settlements arose in the Indus-Sarasvati river region at least as far back as 6500 B.C.E. Like many other ancient peoples, the early Indians settled by rivers. They settled primarily on the banks of the Sarasvati River as well as along the banks of the Indus River. These rivers provided the ancient Indians with plenty of water, and the land near the rivers was fertile and excellent for growing crops. The rivers also provided the Indians with a convenient way to travel and trade among themselves and with other civilizations. Archeologists have found artifacts from the Indus-Sarasvati civilization - such as carved seals - in Mesopotamia's Sumer. These discoveries have led scholars to believe that the early Indians traded with Mesopotamia, possibly by traveling in ships down the Indus and Sarasvati rivers to the Arabian Sea and then west to Sumer and other locations.
After the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E., the Indus-Sarasvati Indians moved to more habitable areas, such as the fertile banks of the Ganga river further east. Archeological evidence shows, however, that people settled by the Ganga River as far back as 5000 B.C.E.
Questions:
1. In what ways is your map similar to the one that you see in the map above?
My map is similar because it has all the geographical features that the map above has.
2. What physiographic features can you identify on this map that are not on your map?
nothing.
3. Why do you think settlements developed along the Indus and Sarasvati rivers? Explain with clear and complete details.
Because the Indus and Sarasvati rivers are fertile areas where you can grow crops.
4. Accurately draw and label the ancient Sarasvati River on your map.
5. Why did ancient Indian people eventually migrate to the Ganga River?because that river too has a fertile area of land.
1. My map is similar because my map has all of the things this map includes.
2. The difference is the color parts of the map is shaded in while my map doesn't do it.
3. I think there was a settlement near the Indus river because there was a fresh water supply and some meat to eat.
5. Because that river too has a fertile are of land.
Assignment 4-2
Website: Indus Valley
Use the website above to answer these questions. Write your answers in complete sentences with clear details on your wiki page.
1. What was discovered during the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro?
2. How is Mohenjo-Daro similar to our cities today?
3. What can we learn from archaeological discoveries (such as artifacts and city construction) in Mohenjo-Daro?
4. Give clear and specific information about how people lived in Mohenjo-Daro. In your answer, you have to talk about the artifacts that you discovered and put into the museum.
5. What do we know about the Priest-King?
6. What was the Great Bath and how was it used?
It was used as a public bath.
1. The items that were found during the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro is bricks, well, and houses.
2. It's similair to our city today because of the sewer system and there well going community.
3. We can learn how the people in Mohenjo-Daro looked like, how there houses looked like, and see what kind of jobs they have.
4. People in Mohenjo-Daro used carts or boats to move things around, we can learn that Mohenjo-Daro people had what kind of hair they had, they used weights to trade at a right amount, they wear beautiful jewelry, and they used seals for charms.
5. The priest king was a important person he was either a king or a important priest.
6. The Great Bath was a humongous pool for people. It was basically a swimming pool.
Assignment 4-3
Source:
Think about the activity we did in class as archeologists in Mohenjo-Daro. Using the source above, your ideas, and the notes you took about archeologists ideas, answer the following questions clearly and completely on your wiki page. Each answer should be at least two sentences long with specific information.
1. What have you learned about daily life in Mohenjo-Daro from this activity?
I learned that in daily life in Mohenjo-Daro that everything in the society depended on the specialization of labor.
2. Which characteristics of civilization do you see represented in the artifacts you looked at? Explain.
On these artifacts I saw the specialization of labor.
3. In what ways do you think Mohenjo-Daro was like a modern city?
I think that the vast plumbing made mohenjo daro like a modern city.
4. Why do you think it is difficult for us to know exactly what life was like in ancient civilizations like those in the Indus-Sarasvati region?
5. What do you think might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro?
Invasions from another city might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro.
1. I learned that in Mohenjo-Daro daily life they weigh rice with hard mud clay, men have a beard and have flowery cloth and have a stone necklace. Mohenjo Daro also have entertainment like board games when they're board.
2. On these artifacts I saw a specialization of labor they put water into a huge pool to swim or to clean in. They also have a okay sewer system because they have a well and some sewer pipes.
3. To me Mohenjo Daro is a modern city because of their sewer system. Not that many places have a sewer system a long time ago.
4. It is hard because all of the items from Mohenjo Daro are gone. Also theres not that many things we can know from building unless the building contains items from history.
5. Invasions from another city might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro. Also other places could have declined because they didn't want to cooperate with Mohenjo Daro.
Assignment 4-4
Answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. What varna were you in during the caste system simulation?
2. What was your favorite part about the caste system simulation? Why?
3. What part of the simulation made you angry, upset, or frustrated? Why?
4. Do you think this system is fair? Why or why not?
5. Do you think a society should organize people into social classes? Why or Why not?
1. I was in the law makers and warriors.
2. My favorite part in this simulation is when I had the power to make the lower class work for me. I liked this part because I never had anyone working for me in the real world however I finally got to see what a king got to do.
3. The part that made me angry was the part when the lower class wouldn't listen to me. This made me angry because that person is a lower class when I'm a higher class then him or her.
4. I think this system is fair because the law makers or Brahaman were fair or followed there Dharma their last life and the laborers didn't follow there Dharma in there last life.
5. I think they should put the society in classes because if you put the lower classes with the higher classes people will get confused and the lower classes can act like the higher classes and that won't be fair!
Assignment 4-5
Website: India-Government
Use the website above and what you have learned in class so far to answer these questions about the early Indus River Governments.
1. Why would having a central government help in planning and organizing a city?
2. Who were Rajahs?
3. What is a Guru?
4. What subjects were taught in school?
5. Who was in charge of the government?
6. Why did people look up to the priests?
1. This would help because central government are a leader and can tell people to do this that etc.
2. Rajah's are king's.
3. Guru is a type of teacher.
4. All of the subjects were religious systems.
5. The indus preists is in charge of the government.
6. People looked up to priests because they are messengers from god.
After completing your Understanding How Ashoka's Edicts Helped Unify India sheet answer the following comprehension questions:
1. What are the main ideas expressed in Ashoka's edicts?
2. What are some of the ways in which Ashoka's leadership promoted unity in India?
3. In what ways did Ashoka's Buddhist beliefs contribute to the unification of India?
4. In addition to the edicts, what else might have contributed to the unification of India during this time period?
5. Explain how one of the edicts you examined could be catagorized another way
(i.e. instead of Buddhist Values it could also concern Justice)
1. The main idea in the Ashoka's edicts are don't fight be fair.
2. Ashoka's leadership promoted unity of India because he put fair laws and won't torture people without a good cause.
3. Ashoka's Buddhist beliefs contribute to the unification of India because of peace.
4. What else that have contributed to the unification of India is the reign of Ahoka after he became Buddha.
5. I can also be in Buddhist value because they are aloud three days before they are sentence to death. In that time they can pray and hope they get a better life in the next life.
Assignment 6-3
Directions: Read the following information about the Minoans and the Mycenaeans and then answer the questions that follow in your notebook.The Origins of the Greeks
The Minoans:
Minoan culture developed on the island of Crete in approximately 3,000 B.C.E. Minoan palace murals (wall paintings) and painted pottery show us a great sea culture, fueled by fishing, farming, and local arts. The Minoans were master sailors and set up long-distance trade routes with Spain, Egypt, Canaan, and Asia Minor. Socially, the Minoans were an egalitarian (equal) culture, with both men and women holding respected positions in the fields of religion, agriculture, and craftwork. Recreation enjoyed by the Minoans included dancing to music and song, "bull-leaping" - and boxing, complete with boxing gloves and mouth guards. The remarkable peace-loving character of the Minoan civilization is obvious because they didn't have fortresses, war equipment, and painted battle scenes among the remains of their settlements. The Minoan civilization is historically important to Greece because it was the model for the Mycenaean (pronounced my-sih-NEE-in) civilization which is considered the earliest developed culture on mainland Greece.
The Mycenaeans:
Mycenae was settled in 2,700 B.C.E. Most of the myths about ancient Greek heroes and their famous battles come to us from the Mycenaeans. Later Greek poets such as Homer used these tales in their writings. The Mycenaeans spoke an early form of the Greek language, and developed an agricultural economy based on grains, grapes, and olives. Like the Minoans, they traded by sea with Egypt and Asia Minor. Unlike the Minoans, the Mycenaeans devoted most of their energies to developing a strong military. The circular royal tombs of Mycenae reveal collections of decorated uniforms, elaborate helmets, chariots, daggers, and axes. Horses were also extremely important to the Mycenaeans, as they were the vehicles of war. Mycenaean documents suggest that their society was hierarchical, with kings and soldiers in positions of power at the top of society, and prisoners of war who became slaves at the bottom of society who served the kings and soldiers. Other than artwork showing religious festivals and musical performances, very few artifacts of entertainment were left by the Mycenaeans.
1. What did the Minoan and the Mycenaean civilizations have in common?
2. In what ways were the Minoan and the Mycenaean civilizations different?
3. Why do you think so many aspects of Minoan civilization are found at Mycenae?
4. What other geographical areas, besides Mycenae, might Minoan civilization have influenced?
5. What aspects of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations would you expect to have survived in later periods of Greek history?
6. Using your textbook pages 256-257, explain how the decline of the Minoans and the Mycenaeans was similar.
1. They both had a trade route to Egypt.
2. Mycenaean not like Minoan Mycenaean putting most of their energy on military while Minoan were very good at sailing.
3. I think so many Minoan civilization is found at Mycenae because the Mycenae role model is Minoan.
4. I think other places are Egypt.
5. They would have survived because they were sailors and can fight on the sea well or good.
6. The decline was that they both got destroyed by either a bad location and weak army.
Assignment 6-5
Athens Creates Democracy (p.264-265)
Democracy is a type of government in which people rule themselves instead of being ruled by one person like a King.
-500 BCE, Athenian leader Cleisthenes (KLYS-thuh-neez) develops world's first democracy in Athens
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-Cleisthenes set up the Assembly which was a large meeting of male citizens, sometimes about 6000 men. They met on a hill called a Pnyx (pah-NIKS).
-all citizens (except women, slaves, and foreigners) gathered in an Assembly. Slaves were sent out to force male citizens to go to the assembly
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-At the Assembly, they discussed, debated, and, finally, voted on important issues such as changing voting laws or how to fight the Persians who wanted to control Greece.
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-The assembly always started with a pig sacrifice to honor the gods.
Assembly Reflection
Write answers in your notebook.
1. During our Assembly, how did you feel as the debate and voting was happening?
2. How do you think other people felt during our discussion in our Assembly?
3. Why do you think so many people were excluded from an Assembly in Ancient Greece?
4. Give three benefits and three drawbacks of Athenian Democracy by making a table like this:
Athenian Democracy
Benefits (+)
Drawbacks (-)
Sources:
- Athens
- Corinth
- Sparta
Copy the following venn diagram in your notebook. Then, using all of the sources above, compare each polis by filling in the proper area in the venn diagram.